| Show why tho the cox co x chyb cotugno Coi tums the cow ow punchers le lega a must le ie I 1 from the thorny miles of the rio grande the thousand mongrel shrill that lace aca their bristles together stiff over the country the mesquite tho the shin oak the cats lai the spanish dagger viido spreading reading tp from six inches to tj ten feet high entry vegetable M inious cious with an embroidery of teeth ind and callb a continent of peevish thicket called chaparral is 19 ire indi prin mattly call a log clog with too many i sorts of grandfathers a cur into int 0 this bannull ban sati null mill dives the bild lild ild steer steel through paths and passages known to and after him the pursuing roan niu fiut st albo dive at a rate that would tear his flesh to ribbons ns if the blades and points could get hold held or of him cut but he h cases his leg against the hostile chapar chaparral ml from thigh to ankle in chaps leat leathern bern biec bi clies next door to aimor his dally daily bread is iii scarcely more need fill to hion him soon his hia bar barbaric baTic pleasure in finery sews sens tough ilith er fai fringe nie along their sides and the leather flap or of the pocket becomes stamped it hatli ith it a heavy heary rose sagging in a L slant lint i upon his bis hips leans leather belt bell ot of buckled with jaunty arrogance and though he nes n ii es his pistol with wall murderous skill it is ih pretty ait with ivory of 01 mother ol of pearl fur for a handle his 1113 arni must be loose to bis loo looped ped rope h lev e a and n 1 I drop d rop I 1 its t D noose 05 over the neck deck of the animal that bounds in fiant of his rushing rus hing pony There therefore foie lie rides in a too looe flannel shirt that vill till not cramp him as lie it whirls the chilt coils but the handkerchief kil knotted at his throat though it is there to prevent sunburn will in time of prosperity be chosen for its color and toft soft texture a scarf to draw the elc ee of woman his heavy splendid saddle is in its shape and ana luxury of straps and leather thongs the comple teEt instrument anstrum e n t for eight and day dinvel tia veland and t the h e freighting along with non ou of beald aud arid lod cing ping that an any nomad has so far devised with vilh its trappings trip pings ind and stamped leather its horn and high can caille canlle tle e are well do it must stand the strain of ebb hundred sudden pounds 0 of f lve beca tearing at it for freedom must be tl the its no lter tb that ht shall I 1 not t drag duri g tj 1 furious farious rages of such a far ear the cattle of the he often ru inn n ii wild ild for three four and five vear years through rocks and forests n never I 1 seeing the face of man from the day when as little li tle calves they were branded and some come were never branded at ai all they hae ha c grown grown up tip in company with the daei deeland and like the deer they fly at it the ap of the hot senian then if he has ridden out to gather these waifs waife f from rom their remote untenanted pasture aud and bring them in to he be counted and driven to saleha must abandon himself tu to the headlong pur pursuit uit the open easy plain with its harmless footing lie lies behind the steep sleep valley na nanoni a I 1 aws up to an entering wedge among the rocks arid and into these untoward regions rush the breves beeves the shale and dt detritus detritus ritus dl if shel shelving Ning landslides the slippery knobs in the beds of li the uncertain edges of the jumping off place all lie in the road of the he day dav s necessity necess I 1 t v ind and n here the steer g goes 0 es goes th the con punched too ba balancing swaying doubling upon his shrewd pony v the noose une uncoiling oiling flies swinging through the hit an and closes round the throat or perhaps only the hind leg of the quarry rry in III the shock of stop stopping pine rt ol 01 of leining in to earcle the riders stir up must be long and his seat a 1 forked pliant poise on the abc horse s bitic no giap of the knee will answer in these contortions his leg must have its straight length a leei of iju sele and sinew to yield or viselike ikc on oil the file pony lony s b rbt and in lien hen the steer feels that he i taken and the rope ti tightens bitens from the saddle horn born then must the go aling be solid else like a fisherman bermani floun floundering Jering with snapped rod and tangled line the co cow punched will hivo have h ivo to repair and noth iniz to lebair them with from the Eio evolution lution of the C cowpuncher by owen wister in ID alaj pr i lagaine Ma anga gaine ine for september |
